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drag racing

Motor sport popular in the USA. High-powered single-seater cars with large rear and small front wheels are timed over a 402.2 m/440 yd strip. Speeds of up to 530 kph/330 mph have been attained by the fastest type of drag-racing cars, ‘top fuel’ dragsters - the other categories of professional drag-racing vehicles are ‘funny cars’, ‘pro-stock’, and ‘pro-stock bikes’.



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LANCASTER - Sheriff's deputies impounded eight vehicles and arrested 59 people early Sunday on suspicion of trespassing and other violations at a Wal-Mart parking lot where youths gathered to drag race, authorities said.
And in 1978's "Grease," John Travolta won the pink slip of a rival's car during a famous drag race that took place in the riverbed near downtown.
Now, he and a team of classmates at Northampton East High School in North Carolina will go head to head in an electric-car drag race with more than 40 other high school teams from the U.
 
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